Gabe Newell: Valve - The Company

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Welcome to The Nerdist Podcast number 307, Companion Cube to episode 306 I'm not gonna go through the whole intro again, but if you skipped over 306 and you're listening to this and you wanna know what the hell's going on, just listen to the intro on 306 It explains everything, why there are two podcasts.
Just in a brief, brief, brief nutshell, episode 306 is with Gabe Newell and it's all about gaming and Valve, Valve's perspective on games with Gabe and then Robin Walker and David Sawyer and Will Wheaton and Chloe Dykstra and myself. And then 307 is just Chloe and myself talking to Gabe from a month earlier all about Valve as a company. So two separate podcasts, didn't wanna lose any material and Gabe was kind enough to give us a ton of time. So I'm just putting all the information out there. So here you go. This episode also brought to you by Falcon Northwest Computers. That's falconnw.com. They will help you customize the perfect gaming rig, any kind of gaming computing system that you want. You want a tower system or a frag box or a super power gaming laptop. They will do it any color you want, any configuration you want. They'll put customized graphics on it and they have amazing customer service and they're super nice. So if you are ready to upgrade or make the leap to a really, what we would call a big boy computer, then you're going to want to go to falconnw.com, Falcon Northwest Computers. Super, super great guys, great company, great machines. And now I'll make up a jingle that they did not approve.
If you did not listen to episode three or six, then you have missed the fact that we are having a huge Valve Nerdist contest. If you go to nerdist.com, you can get all the details, but basically Valve wants to send you to the Dice Summit in Las Vegas. It runs between February 5th and 8th. They're inducting Gaben into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. So Valve is gonna give you two first class tickets, two airfare tickets to the summit.
You're gonna get passes to the summit. You're gonna get a room at the Hard Rock Hotel and seats front and center for Gabe's keynote. So if you're a Valve fan or a Nerdist fan, then this contest should make your brain shit itself.
We basically just want you to design some sort of Valve Nerdist mashup artwork, not for any reason, just for fun. Just wanna see what you would do with it. How would you mash up our two companies in artwork using their icon, anything from their world and anything from our world. And you're gonna send that in JPEG and PAG or GIF file formats to contestatnerdist.com by 6 p.m. January 25th. And we will announce the results pretty quickly after that. So again, go to nerdist.com for all the info on that. And now this podcast, it's Gabe Newell again, the very first time that we talked to him a month before, just talking about Valve as a company. So it's basically one of the smartest people in the world talking about one of the best companies in the world. Why would you need anything else for the next hour and 15 minutes?
And like I said in the intro on 306, I took Chloe up there with me for this one. She is way more intensive a gamer than I am and most people that I know. I remember one year at GDC, she wanted to track Gabe down and get him to sign her arm so she could get a tattoo of it.